I seldom post a video as I know most of us prefer to get our information in written form. It's generally faster. But this video deserves 15 minutes of your attention. It is a fairly sobering look at automation and robotics and the future loss of jobs.

Bill Dunkelberg (chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Business) is coming to visit me later this week, and we’ll spend a day talking about whether or not we want to do a book on the future of work.

We were supposed to be writing one on what government policies we need to see enacted in order to improve the employment situation; but as I began to research the entire work and employment world, I started to see that book as being rather limited in value. The far deeper question is, what is the future of work? Not just for the next few years but for the next few decades.

Bill and I have been going back and forth on this and look forward to sitting down with each other. I'll let you know what we do. Now here's the video.

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